Sunday, September 16, 2012

As much as I
dislike cold weather, I love fall. The leaves changing colours, Halloween, the
beginning of sweater seasons – they are all reasons I love fall. But one of the
main reasons I love fall is apple picking.

I loved apple
picking as a child, and I still love it to this day. I remember as a child
going apple picking with my mom and my sister, and my tradition was to pick one
apple at the very beginning of the day and spend the rest of the time at the
orchard polishing that apple. Then, just as we were about to leave I would eat
my polished apple and I swear it was the best apple in the world.

Usually when I go
apple picking, I go a little over board. My goal for apple picking this season
was to pick my weight in apples – but luckily that didn’t happen! I only picked
10lbs of apples, but still that’s a lot of apples. So I immediately started
baking! I decided to start with the classic Apple Crisp. I love how it makes
the house smell wonderfully of cinnamon and apples! Here’s the recipe:

Sunday, September 2, 2012

If you’ve read my previous blog entries, you'll know caramel
was the bane of my existence for a while (I’m slowly starting to show it who’s
boss...) However, there are other foods that I find extremely intimidating and
I worry that if I attempt them, I will just be adding a new bane to my list.

Choux paste, and specifically profiteroles, were one of
those foods.

If you’ve ever seen how choux paste is made, you’d think it
was a little weird. There should be no way to make a dough on the stove top and
have it work out. And then those little blobs of dough are supposed to become
really light and fluffy? It seems impossible.

Well, you’ll be ecstatic to know that it does work and it’s
not hard to do! I promise!